*And it may even be a fact that monogamy is uncommon in the animal kingdom because they are animals.*

Believe it or not thinker 2, but science has already examined that
question. It is all about pair bonding and yes there is a gene
for it, which some species have, some don't.

Pair bonding makes perfect sense for those species, where extra
resources are required to raise the offspring. The work done was
on prairie voles. Unlike their cousins the kansas voles, prairie
voles are faithfull critters, even when tempted with cute and
younger female voles. What it came down to with the males, was
vasopressin receptors in certain part of the limbic system.

So do some humans carry the same gene? Quite possibly, we can't
really test it, for we can't just send radioactive substances
down human veins, as we can with prairie voles. But it would
explain alot.

As to sexual attraction, clearly its not just about choice and
so called free will. There are instinctive factors at play,
which we do not choose. The human brain is more complex then that.

If it were just about free will, then we could take the person
whom we find instinctivly repulsive and with a sheer wish, find
them attractive. It just ain't that simple I am afraid.

Nicnoto <"A percentage may be gay because of their upbringing...but only a percentage."

Where on earth did you get that idea from Nicnoto?
An evangelical christian website perhaps?

I can't imagine ANY upbringing that would 'encourage' anyone to be gay if they weren't born that way.

My godson was the first child of three to my best friend and her very homophobic, religious husband.

At no time in his early childhood did my godson even have an idea about homosexuality. He was educated at a strict Anglican school, and went to church every sunday with the family.

At the age of 4 he was noticeably feminine in manner and actions.
He preferred the company of girls all his childhood and teens.
He had trouble making male friends.

He finally 'came out' at 19 years old to his shocked family.
But no one else was shocked at all.
We had known he was gay from a young boy- before he even knew what that meant.

How can that have happened do you think?
He was born with homosexual genes- that's how.

Suz...but those who 'knew' he was 'gay'... also would know that his condition was by no means 'normal'...right?

While such a situation should be compassionately approached..if that kid popped up when he is 30 and tries to get homosexuality taught as 'normal' in the kindy where my grandaughter goes..he would have a very passionate 'enemy' in me.

By using the word 'condition', are suggesting that homosexuality is a pathology?

"Where on earth did you get that idea from Nicnoto?
An evangelical christian website perhaps?"

No Suz, I am entertaining that it may be possible (in SOME instances, where a person is homosexual) that a child's upbringing may have played a big part in the person being gay.
For instance a tom boy who is encouraged to wear boys clothes, hang out with all guy friends and play all the sports she can, could have something to do with them being gay.

I'm not stating it as fact, but these are the big things we don't know. I am only agreeing that the idea may be possible.

suzeonline
"How can that have happened do you think?
He was born with homosexual genes- that's how"

The fact is, you don't know what he was born with, genes, a chemical imbalance, improper hormone doses in the whom, brain dysfunction or maybe his souls identity is that of a woman, nobody knows.

Until there is scientific proof of what makes a person homosexual, we can't really dismiss other possibilities. Another thing to think about is not all homosexuals are the same. gay is not just gay, there are different types of gay and that could mean different factors into making them gay.